Online Propaganda - Invisible Tool of Secret Government

[Octafish]

40. 'The Mother Tongue is Propaganda' -- Marshall MacLuhan

Then there is the use of psychology and other social sciences to not only understand, but shape and control, how online activism and discourse unfolds. Today’s newly published document touts the work of GCHQ’s “Human Science Operations Cell,” devoted to “online human intelligence” and “strategic influence and disruption”:



You are most welcome, H2O Man. It's because of you and all who stand up to Them, the secret government of privilege, that We the People will win. Unless, of course, they round us all up before then.

From Chris Hedges:

The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.” And because Americans’ emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity in government databases, there will be more than enough “evidence” to seize us should the state deem it necessary. This information waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant.

Thanks to the technology, it's easy.

Thank Moon the Truth spreads as fast as a lie these days.